Here are the post positions and morning-line odds for the 2024 Kentucky Derby, which will have the richest purse in its history.
from 2023, bringing the total purse to $5 million. The winner will receive a majority of that, $3.1 million, while the runner-up wins $1 million, third place earns $500,000, fourth gets $250,000 and fifth brings home $150,000.
The two horses deemed most likely to cash in on the inflated purse are Fierceness, the 5-2 morning line favorite, and Sierra Leone, the second choice at 3-1. Fierceness, which will start in the No. 17 post position, is seeking to become the third Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner to also win the Kentucky Derby, while Sierra Leone has to overcome the No. 2 post position, which hasn’t produced a Kentucky Derby winner since 1978.
He’s also one of the fastest horses in the field with two final speed figures above the average speed figure for a race of this caliber.Stronghold won the Grade I Santa Anita Derby yet his pedigree is all wrong for a follow-up victory in the Kentucky Derby. His sire, 2004 horse of the year Ghostzapper, won Grade I races over distances from six furlongs to 1¼ miles, including the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
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